JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1443, 18 May 1912, Page 9

JOTTINGS.

The census returns giving the religious classifications of the Commonwealth and States show that there are 17,28? Jews in Australia. Of these 7GGO are residents of New South Wales, whilst there are G3GS in Sydney nnd suburbs,

Tho Rome corespondent of the Sydney "'Catholic Press" reports the ordination by the Cardinal Secretary of State of sis ex-Anglican clergy, l'ivo of these camo from Brighton (Eng.), and their conversion to Roman Catholicism was said to have followed a difference with their Bishop upon points of doctrine.

Gipsy Smith's groat Pacific Coast mission tour has just ended-. "Over 400 times I have had to face tho public in a littlo over five months," he wrote recently. "Tho crowds have been phenomenal. In tho aggregate, I suppose that I have prcached to one million and a quarter people, and have seen something liko between 30,000 and 40,000 people profess faith in Jesus Christ, This is epochmaking. Churches, preachers, poonle, and cities have all felt tho power oiid the impact of tho Gospel of the Son of God." Whatever may have happened to tho women's movement in this country, thero has been considerable progress in Norway, whero Mrs. Bramweil Booth recently addressed a meeting of 3000 people in tho Cathedral at Bergen. On her last visit to Scandinavia it was hoped that she would havo been allowed to do this, but there was somo legal difficulty, to which attention was thus called, and by the time Mrs. Booth again visited Norway new laws had been passed, enabling women—even "foreigners"—to speak in the. State cathedrals of the country.

Ou Sunday afternoon, March 17, Dr. •Towc-tt preached at Columbia University, New York, his own pulpit at Fifth Avenue being occupied by Dr. SchaufTler. Early, this month Dr. .Towett is to deliver the Lyman Ueecher foundation lectures at Yale. Ho will deliver seven lectures on the general topic of "The Preacher." Last week the Fifth Avenue Church gave a reception to Dr. and Mrs. .Towett to celebrate tho first anniversary of their settlement in New York.

Jlr. Paul Moody, tho younger son of the late D. L. Moody, who has for some years tea engaged in the publishing business, has now entered tho ministry, and has been called to the pastorate of tho South Congregational Church at St. Johnsbury, Vermont.